Four years ago, I was coming back to work from my first maternity leave, and was working 3 days a week. Week after week, I kept my head down and got my coding tasks done in my limited time in the office.

Soon it became crystal clear to me that even if I did this incredibly well — as well as I possibly could — I wouldn’t be given the opportunity to lead a team or to do more strategic work. I would just get more coding tasks assigned to me. At that point, I could see that what I was doing wouldn’t get me to where I wanted, but I also didn’t know what I should do instead. So here’s the post I wish I had read then.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this tutorial:

• You’ll learn about several basic numeric, string, and Boolean types that are built into Python. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be familiar with what objects of these types look like, and how to represent them.
• You’ll also get an overview of Python’s built-in functions. These are pre-written chunks of code you can call to do useful things. You have already seen the built-in print() function, but there are many others.

‘The Last Man Who Knew Everything,’ a new biography of the amiable and enigmatic genius whose ideas powered the atomic bomb.

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